PARIS:
Rohan Bopanna crossed the first-round hurdle in men's doubles but
Sania Mirza bowed out in the opening round of the women's doubles event in the
French Open on Wednesday.
Bopanna along with his Uruguayan partner
Pablo Cuevas
hardly had to break a sweat as they outplayed the French duo of Mathias Bourgue and
Paul-Henri Mathieu
in a one-sided contest.
The ninth seeded Indo-Uruguayan pair posted a comfortable 6-1 6-1 victory over French combination in just 53 minutes.
They will next take on Treat Huey and Denis Istomin.
However, fourth seeded pair of Sania and
Yaroslava Shvedova
of Kazakhstan were stunned by unseeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia and Australia's
Daria Gavrilova
in a hard-fought match.
Sania and Shvedova went down 6-7 (5-7) 6-1 2-6 to Pavlyuchenkova and Gavrilova in a gruelling battle that lasted 2 hours and 23 minutes.
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